Normally a game spending years in EA is not a good sign. I'd guess development is not going smoothly.
We already knew that from Larian having to do mass hires everywhere and Swen saying their own developers weren't fully comfortable with programming the requisite changes on their engine in earlier PFH stream. Whenever the initial game launches, it will still be a buggy & broken mess.
Honestly, I do not know what "buggy mess" you are talking about. From my experience (and I've played the game for over 100 hours) I've not had any bugs worth noting aside from the visuals in a few cutscenes. After patch 6 the game runs smooth as butter at 60 fps on ultra (and I don't have a high end pc), looks gorgeous, voice acting is top notch, decent story and a variety of companions. I've got my money worth 10 folds. Granted, I bought the game only 4 months ago and it's still new and exciting for me, as the time passes I might change my stance, but I doubt it
